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This is my favorite zombie flick of all time. This movie differs from the other Dead films in that it isn't about a group of people trying to survive. Instead it's a movie about a team of scientists trying to find a cure to the epidemic, but the military group assigned to assist them is wondering what exactly is going on since they're slowly dying off trying to protect the scientific team and themselves. There's no outside communication and any effort to find civilization ends in failure. With no outside communication and being left to fend for themselves, we slowly watch as two sides succumb to insanity and eventually destroying each other.
The one character I absolutely loved in this film is Captain Rhodes. I don't think I ever seen another film that can capture the spirit of the character. Captain Rhodes is the only character in this entire film who made actual sense. The head scientists, Dr Logan, also known as Frankenstein for slicing up the zombie specimens wanted to train zombies in a manner similar to how one might train kids. We slowly learn that Dr Logan has a serious mental problem and his experiment is delusional but by that time it was too late for everyone to realize. Captain Rhodes allowed Dr Logan a benefit of a doubt in his experiment. Throughout the film we see Captain Rhodes becoming increasing agitated but the Captain wanted the experiment to proceed since the scientists are so sure of a solution.
Right from the get go Captain Rhodes appears arrogant, cocky, and hard headed in terms of trying to get him to see the scientist's side of the problem. However, after watching the film a few times over the years what I accepted is that Captain Rhodes is always asking the right question which is: exactly what are the scientists doing? Throughout the movie Captain Rhodes gave the science team enough shadow of a doubt to allow them to progress and come out with a possible solution even though his men are increasingly frustrated. We see various meetings between the military and the scientists and in each interaction the scientists don’t really explain any sort of progress or offer any type of solution. Each interaction with each other turns up more questions and doubts until eventually their anger and frustration turns them against each other. I too always questioned exactly what the scientists intentions were. Not once did any side actually came up with anything remotely possible and even Dr Logan's trained zombie concept seem flawed in many ways. We also see the military men putting themselves in great danger as they capture specimens for the scientists and then days later having to do it all over without any indication of success from the last one they got. I would totally understand the frustration.
I also think Captain Rhodes was the last senior officer in the rank. His closest NCO is Private Steel who doesn’t seem to take his job seriously. We see Captain trying to invoke discipline in the ranks in the first big interaction with between Sarah and the military men. So I think Captain Rhodes is at a major disadvantage because he’s in charge of men who might die for something he doesn’t get yet no one seems to be taking their duties seriously including the scientists and the low ranking military men. He doesn’t have any sort of discipline structure since he lost 5 men that probably included the senior most enlisted sergeant NCO ranks and the senior officers rank that included Major Cooper that we know for sure. Meanwhile on the science team side we see them losing ranks between Logan and Sarah who seem to have conflicting ideas on where to take the research. Sarah is trying to be traditional while Logan is trying to be practical since he knows even with a cure they can’t defeat the millions of zombies out there since they’re out numbered 400,000 to 1. So every group is broke but no one wants to cooperate or work towards a common goal.
The thing I most dislike about this film is that at the end Captain Rhodes not only turned into a murderous buffoon but also a traitor and coward to his own men. He died in the most horrendous manner possible in the entire film. Not only that, he died from the very experiment that he allowed to continue with a smart zombie known as Bub. Throughout the entire film, Captain Rhodes did not kill a single zombie. He only killed unarmed scientists and killed his own men by abandoning them.
Whenever I watch this movie, I secretly wish that Captain Rhodes turned out to be the hero. I honestly wish the could remake this film but instead change the point of the movie where Captain Rhodes turned into a complete idiot and got everyone killed.
Overall a great movie to see Captain Rhodes interaction. I bought the collectors Blu Ray edition and wow, it is a major upgrade from my old dvd copy of the film. Absolutely love it. Now I only wish they released the Ultimate Edition of Dawn of the Dead on Blu Ray.
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I really like Day of the dead awesome movie one of the best Romero dead movies...Hes done I hope that Scream Factory releases the dawn of the dead in an collector's edition blu ray...Thank you Amazon for the super speedy fast delivery...
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S. Lornie
Underrated '80s classic!
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 26, 2020
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新旧ブルーレイの比較をしてみました。
Reviewed in Japan 🇯🇵 on February 8, 2020
新旧ブルーレイの比較をしてみました。
Reviewed in Japan 🇯🇵 on February 8, 2020
このレビューは、『死霊のえじき <HDニューマスター・スペシャルエディション> メモリアル・コレクション[初回生産限定] Blu-ray 』のレビューです。Reviewed in Japan 🇯🇵 on February 8, 2020
御存知！ジョージ・Ａ・ロメロ監督の『～オブ・ザ・デッド』シリーズ第三弾！
いわゆる『ゾンビ』シリーズの第三弾。
『生ける屍の夜（死者の夜）』（ナイト・オブ・ザ・リビングデッド）。
『ゾンビ（死者の夜明け）』。
『死霊のえじき（死者の日）』。
以降、英語タイトルでは『死者の～～』が続きます。
題名だけではシリーズ感はありませんが、英語訳すればシリーズ感は出て来ますネ！
ロードショウ公開されたときにタイトルの『死霊のえじき』にはガッカリした記憶が今でも残っています。
さて２０２０年２月５日。
ようやく日本でも２枚組ブルーレイの発売となりました。
特典映像てんこ盛りの内容は、好きな人には堪らない内容です。
映画についての蘊蓄は、皆さん御存知なので、もはや説明不要だと思いますので他のレビュアーさんにお任せします。
そこで、今回はＨＤリマスター版ということで、旧ブルーレイと比較してみました。
画質は明らかに向上しています。
旧ブルーレイは、若干ピントが甘いような感じがしますが、新ブルーレイは若干ではありますがハッキリした感じになっています。
色合いも旧ブルーレイは、青みがかった感じですが、新ブルーレイは赤味が増して肌色がキレイに見えます。
コントラストも旧ブルーレイは少し抑え気味の感じですが、新ブルーレイは反射光がハッキリしていて際立って見えます。
特に大きな差が出ているのは、夜や暗いシーンの画質です。
他のブルーレイもそうですが、ＨＤリマスター版は暗いシーンが綺麗に見える傾向にあります。
『クリープショー』のブルーレイも輸入盤は暗いシーンが綺麗に見えます。
流石！ＨＤリマスター版。
そして旧ブルーレイには、オープニングのシーンで画面全体に見られたゴマのような黒ポチの汚れが、新ブルーレイでは、綺麗に消去されています。
また日本語字幕も数種類あり、初公開版と新訳版もファンには嬉しい限りです。
おまけに日本語吹き替え版も収録しているので、高齢者の私には嬉しい限り。
とにかくファンにとって日本盤としてこの上ない内容です。
と言うことで、文句なく星５つとさせていただきました。
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Amazon Customer
Good zombie, have a treat...
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 4, 2012
paul heusser
Top Zombie Kills
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 25, 2020
Top Zombie Kills
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 25, 2020
Slow burner, just as gory and awful acting, that makes you laugh! THE BEST SFX for that era, personally they're the best death by zombie scenes ever. Great to watch with friends, darkness, surround sound, even better if some haven't seen it!!Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on April 25, 2020
In my top 3 all time zombie movies.
Also in perfect condition, came on time.
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GRAEME STEPHENSON
No English subtitles despite what it says on the tin! Not the fault of Amazon.
Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on October 21, 2020
